[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sm,—If we resolve that
the unnecessary cruelty of the jungle is a divine order, we shall have no small difficulty in dealing with sundry inhumane practices in medical research. This will be all the more regrettable as it will hinder our present efforts towards the international control of such matters.
At present the world's medical research institutions are subject to no adequate public inspection, and are often in the hands of experimentalists, who have scarcely emerged froth savagery, in spite of their medical degrees and western dresi. It will be of no avail-once the unenlightened public has been taught to believe in the magic of blood sera—to bring forward our statistics to the contrary. I sincerely hope therefore, that this controversy on the origin of evil in the jungle, will soon give place to the more practical one of how to get rid of it.—I am, Sir, &e.,
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